Sergeant-Pilot "Tiny" Cameron and his pal "Buzz" the Monkey - 1941.
'Buzz', a monkey who was somewhat of a
celebrity in the Squadron. Sergeant Cameron smuggled the
monkey on board the troopship at Bombay, en route to the Middle
East.
Later taken Prisoner of War, he sent a card back to the squadron
inquiring about Buzz, seemingly more concerned about its fate than
his own.
[We suspect that the dark-eyebrowed pilot depicted is actually Hal
ROBERTS. AWM 010912]
LIBYA. 1941-12. "CORPORAL BUZZ", THE OFFICIAL
MASCOT OF NO. 3 SQUADRON, RAAF, ON THE SHOULDERS OF A MEMBER OF THE
SQUADRON. [AWM
021902]
This
is Tiny with Buzz. [Still a young man, the desert sun was
not being kind to his sensitive skin!]